New shipwrecks near a vessel with lost treasure potentially worth billions of dollars have been discovered off the coast of Colombia.
The San José was sunk while carrying billions’ worth of treasure The Colombian government is ‘picking up the pace’ in bringing a Spanish galleon carrying 200 tonnes of treasure worth £16 billion to the surface. The San José was sunk off the country’s Caribbean coast by the Royal Navy in 1708, and was believed to have been carrying 11 million gold coins among its haul. Other treasure, collected over six years, is thought to include silver from Bolivia and emeralds from Colombia.
Around 200 million tonnes of treasure is believed to have sunk to the bottom of the Caribbean sea A traditional Chinese tea set found in the wreckage And Bolivia’s indigenous Qhara Qhara nation has said the treasure should be returned to them after their ancestors were forced to mine it in the 16th Century.